GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
Amelia Thomas, writing for the Middle East Times, highlights some recreational activities pioneered by those fun-loving scamps, Hizbullah. According to Thomas, the merry terrorist organization's "Central Internet Bureau" has developed a computer game where players
are able to simulate killing key Israeli figures such as PM Ariel Sharon and Shaul Mofaz, as they assume the identity of an '"Islamic resistance fighter'"
According to the Shi'a cut-ups themselves, "Special Forces"
seeks to redress the balance in a genre dominated by American-produced games in which Arab characters are inevitably the enemy.
Hope they're not watching "24." In any case, another game produced by a Syrian company is called "Under Siege" and--not surprisingly--it deals with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
{T]he player becomes Ahmed, a young Palestinian man, who faces Israeli occupation during the first intifada. He must then defend his homeland at any cost; Ahmed can throw stones at the Israeli army and kill settlers.
Thomas adds,
According to Adnan Salim, general manager of the game company, the game "is a call to justice, realizing truth, preventing wrong and aggression", aimed at those over 13, and intended to "dry up their tears; heal their wounds; remove all the feelings of humiliation, humbleness and wretchedness from their souls, and draw the smile of hope and the sense of dignity... on their faces."
From killing settlers?